Associates

BE PART OF THE COMMUNITY

Joining the BRC as an Associate Member is one of the simplest ways for businesses supplying services to retailers to increase their knowledge of the UK Retail Industry, raise their profiles, share their thought leadership, and discuss the key issues affecting the industry.

There is a wealth of knowledge and insights up for grabs, for a modest annual investment of £5,600 +VAT.

Membership is at corporate level, meaning as many of your colleagues as you wish can take advantage of the benefits. This includes joining our role-specific Communities that focus on key retail functions like HR, CSR, Finance, Legal and more.

If your business needs to talk informedly to retailers – whether they are loyal customers or potential clients, joining BRC is a no-brainer!

BE PART OF THE COMMUNITY

Joining the BRC as an Associate Member is one of the simplest ways for businesses supplying services to retailers to increase their knowledge of the UK Retail Industry, raise their profiles, share their thought leadership, and discuss the key issues affecting the industry.

There is a wealth of knowledge and insights up for grabs, for a modest annual investment of £5,600 +VAT.

Membership is at corporate level, meaning as many of your colleagues as you wish can take advantage of the benefits. This includes joining our role-specific Communities that focus on key retail functions like HR, CSR, Finance, Legal and more.

If your business needs to talk informedly to retailers – whether they are loyal customers or potential clients, joining BRC is a no-brainer!

Reasons to become a member

ACCESS EXPERT KNOWLEDGE

✔ Join our range of topic-specific communities giving you access to the most up-to-date information relevant to your business. Click here for a guide to our communities

✔ Receive regular email updates with the latest news, views, and insights

✔ Participate in selected community calls with retailers

✔ Join webinars on key issues affecting the retail industry

GAIN INDUSTRY INSIGHTS

✔ Understand the key priorities for our retail members, and the opportunities they present for your business

✔ Access 90+ analytics reports per year

✔ Inform your presentations and proposals using BRC data and charts, simply credit the BRC

✔ Watch quarterly insights webinars with BRC experts

✔ Contact the BRC Insight team direct for their input to your research or reports

RAISE YOUR PROFILE

✔ Quarterly opportunities to contribute your content to the BRC news page and community hubs

✔  List your company and services on our retail services directory

✔ List your events on our website

✔  Partner with us on existing events or on exclusive events tailored to your business objectives (additional investment required)

Reasons to become a member

ACCESS EXPERT KNOWLEDGE

✔ Join our range of topic-specific communities giving you access to the most up-to-date information relevant to your business. Click here for a guide to our communities

✔ Receive regular email updates with the latest news, views, and insights

✔ Participate in selected community calls with retailers

✔ Join webinars on key issues affecting the retail industry

GAIN INDUSTRY INSIGHTS

✔ Understand the key priorities for our retail members, and the opportunities they present for your business

✔ Access 90+ analytics reports per year

✔ Inform your presentations and proposals using BRC data and charts, simply credit the BRC

✔ Watch quarterly insights webinars with BRC experts

✔ Contact the BRC Insight team direct for their input to your research or reports

RAISE YOUR PROFILE

✔ Quarterly opportunities to contribute your content to the BRC news page and community hubs

✔  List your company and services on our retail services directory

✔ List your events on our website

✔  Partner with us on existing events or on exclusive events tailored to your business objectives (additional investment required)

JOIN THE BRC’S EXPERT COMMUNITIES

If you’re looking for ways to engage with, hear from and understand the agendas of retail businesses, we have just the solution: BRC Communities. Through communities, role-specific groups of retail decision-makers and technical specialists share best practice, swap ideas, create guidance, get early notice of government thinking and help us develop policy positions. You and your colleagues can sign up to as many Communities as you see fit.

BUYING
Product safety (non food), labelling, new product standards

CORPORATE AFFAIRS
Communications, messaging, risk, reputation, influencing government

CSR
Climate action/ Net zero, packaging, waste, ethical/responsible sourcing

CUSTOMER
Strategy, sentiment, experience and data to enhance customer journeys

FINANCE
Business financing, card scheme and interchange fees, taxation, consumer credit

FOOD
Nutrition, labelling, food safety, incident handling horizon scanning, allergens

HR
Diversity & inclusion, employment law & regulation, pay, better jobs

LEGAL
Consumer & data protection, competition, regulation, enforcement

OPERATIONS
Covid, risk and safety, crime and violence, final mile delivery

PROPERTY
Business rates, Landlord/tenant relationships, planning, High Streets

TECHNOLOGY
Tech and data innovation, cyber-security and regulation

TRADE
Brexit, EU importing & exporting, trade deals, moving goods between GB/NI

JOIN THE BRC’S EXPERT COMMUNITIES

If you’re looking for ways to engage with, hear from and understand the agendas of retail businesses, we have just the solution: BRC Communities. Through communities, role-specific groups of retail decision-makers and technical specialists share best practice, swap ideas, create guidance, get early notice of government thinking and help us develop policy positions. You and your colleagues can sign up to as many Communities as you see fit.

BUYING
Product safety (non food), labelling, new product standards

CORPORATE AFFAIRS
Communications, messaging, risk, reputation, influencing government

CSR
Climate action/ Net zero, packaging, waste, ethical/responsible sourcing

CUSTOMER
Strategy, sentiment, experience and data to enhance customer journeys

FINANCE
Business financing, card scheme and interchange fees, taxation, consumer credit

FOOD
Nutrition, labelling, food safety, incident handling horizon scanning, allergens

HR
Diversity & inclusion, employment law & regulation, pay, better jobs

LEGAL
Consumer & data protection, competition, regulation, enforcement

OPERATIONS
Covid, risk and safety, crime and violence, final mile delivery

PROPERTY
Business rates, Landlord/tenant relationships, planning, High Streets

TECHNOLOGY
Tech and data innovation, cyber-security and regulation

TRADE
Brexit, EU importing & exporting, trade deals, moving goods between GB/NI

GAIN INDUSTRY INSIGHTS

Our Insight Team is your gateway to everything you need to know about the retail industry, from facts and figures to the latest statistics. Associates can access over 90 exclusive monitors and reports each year and if ever you have a specific question you need answering you can simply get in touch.

BRC Headlines

Headline news from across our communities to keep members informed about live topics and issues.
Industry Briefings

Exhaustive summaries of key indications including our monthly Economic Briefing Report, and Quarterly Trends Analysis.
Online Community Hubs

Access timely, relevant, actionable insights to help your business as and when you need it.
Digital Insights

Benchmark visitor traffic to UK retail websites with our monthly report which provides invaluable insight into digital retail trends.
Podcasts, Webinars & Events

Gain the latest thinking through our programme of virtual and in-person events.
Retail Sales Monitor

A monthly digest of sales by category.
Employment

The retail sector employs 3.1 million people in the UK, we track how the sector is evolving over time, looking at changes in jobs as well as full time and part time employment.
Shop Price Index

Delivers insights into retail prices and trends over the last decade, helping your business to understand the true impact of changing consumer behaviour on the bottom line.

RAISE YOUR PROFILE

We help BRC Associate Members to raise their profile, demonstrate their thought-leadership and share their expertise with our retail members. Take a look at how you can benefit.

RETAIL SERVICES DIRECTORY

Give your business visibility among the retail community and separate yourself from your competitors by listing your services and contact details on our Retail Services Directory.

VIEW DIRECTORY FOR A LIST OF OUR ASSOCIATE MEMBERS
Member Checklist

Existing Associate Members can view our handy member guide and checklist to ensure that you and your colleagues are making the most of the benefits available to you.

View the Member Guide & Checklist
ONLINE KNOWLEDGE HUBS

Submit thought-leadership articles for us to host on our online community knowledge hubs. Plus, your logo will be added to the relevant hubs making it even easier for your target audience to find you.

VISIT THE ONLINE KNOWLEDGE HUBS

Our Retail Members

As the BRC represents the views and needs of over 70% of the UK retail industry, Associate Members find themselves in a privileged position. Retailers spanning the entire industry become members to get support and insights, and as an Associate Member you play an important part in delivering this, sharing your thought-leadership to help drive the industry forward. Through our close relationships with retailers, we’re able to help raise your profile among the community and through our structure of role-based communities you can be sure that we know the specialists who would benefit from your service.

Our Retail Members

As the BRC represents the views and needs of over 70% of the UK retail industry, Associate Members find themselves in a privileged position. Retailers spanning the entire industry become members to get support and insights, and as an Associate Member you play an important part in delivering this, sharing your thought-leadership to help drive the industry forward. Through our close relationships with retailers, we’re able to help raise your profile among the community and through our structure of role-based communities you can be sure that we know the specialists who would benefit from your service.

Our Associate Members

GROW YOUR RETAIL CONNECTIONS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE BRC

Get a seat at the table with decision makers and senior business leaders through our digital and physical event partnerships.

WANT A MORE IN-DEPTH RELATIONSHIP WITH THE BRC?

Can you contribute thought-leading expertise and practical advice to our members on the issues that matter most to them? If so, we’d love to develop strategic partnerships with you that can help you further engage, build your profile and relationships with UK retailers.

We tailor activities to suit your business needs with digital content, podcasts, webinars, roundtables and other bespoke activities.

See how you can benefit or get in touch to have a chat about your requirements and how we can work together.

GROW YOUR RETAIL CONNECTIONS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE BRC

Get a seat at the table with decision makers and senior business leaders through our digital and physical event partnerships.

WANT A MORE IN-DEPTH RELATIONSHIP WITH THE BRC?

Can you contribute thought-leading expertise and practical advice to our members on the issues that matter most to them? If so, we’d love to develop strategic partnerships with you that can help you further engage, build your profile and relationships with UK retailers.

We tailor activities to suit your business needs with digital content, podcasts, webinars, roundtables and other bespoke activities.

See how you can benefit or get in touch to have a chat about your requirements and how we can work together.

Our Partnership Pack provides a helpful overview of the different opportunities available. We tailor activities to meet your needs so please do get in touch, to have a chat about your requirements and how we can work together.

We put in and get out a massive amount from our BRC membership. Recent highlights have been working with the BRC on our practical horizon scanner for retail organisations (Retail Compass), and hosting the BRC's Head of Insights who spoke to us about the latest forecasts for the Retail sector and key policy issues. All of this helps us to shape the advice we give our clients firmly in the context of the issues facing their businesses now and in the future.

RPC

Being a member of the BRC means we are able to get a deeper understanding of the latest issues affecting retailers, which is invaluable to ensuring we develop good relationships with these clients.

Womble Bond Dickinson

We hugely value our relationship with the BRC. The profile gained from working with the industry’s leading trade association on the data insights they provide and the openness of discussion when we consult them on matters of policy allow us to bring tangible benefits to our clients.

KPMG

Associates

Our Associate membership is designed for companies who provide services to the retail industry

Associates

Our Associate membership is designed for companies who provide services to the retail industry

BE PART OF THE COMMUNITY

BE PART OF THE COMMUNITY

Reasons to become a member

Reasons to become a member

JOIN THE BRC’S EXPERT COMMUNITIES

JOIN THE BRC’S EXPERT COMMUNITIES

GAIN INDUSTRY INSIGHTS

BRC Headlines

Industry Briefings

Online Community Hubs

Digital Insights

Podcasts, Webinars & Events

Retail Sales Monitor

Employment

Shop Price Index

Our Retail Members

Our Retail Members

Our Associate Members

Our Associate Members

GROW YOUR RETAIL CONNECTIONS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE BRC

WANT A MORE IN-DEPTH RELATIONSHIP WITH THE BRC?

GROW YOUR RETAIL CONNECTIONS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE BRC

WANT A MORE IN-DEPTH RELATIONSHIP WITH THE BRC?

Being a member of the BRC means we are able to get a deeper understanding of the latest issues affecting retailers, which is invaluable to ensuring we develop good relationships with these clients.

We hugely value our relationship with the BRC. The profile gained from working with the industry’s leading trade association on the data insights they provide and the openness of discussion when we consult them on matters of policy allow us to bring tangible benefits to our clients.

Associates

Our Associate membership is designed for companies who provide services to the retail industry

Associates

Our Associate membership is designed for companies who provide services to the retail industry

BE PART OF THE COMMUNITY

BE PART OF THE COMMUNITY

Reasons to become a member

Reasons to become a member

JOIN THE BRC’S EXPERT COMMUNITIES

JOIN THE BRC’S EXPERT COMMUNITIES

GAIN INDUSTRY INSIGHTS

BRC Headlines

Industry Briefings​

Online Community Hubs​

Digital Insights​

Podcasts, Webinars & Events​

Retail Sales Monitor

Employment​

Shop Price Index

RAISE YOUR PROFILE

RETAIL SERVICES DIRECTORY

Member Checklist

ONLINE KNOWLEDGE HUBS

Our Retail Members

Our Retail Members

Our Associate Members

Our Associate Members

GROW YOUR RETAIL CONNECTIONS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE BRC

WANT A MORE IN-DEPTH RELATIONSHIP WITH THE BRC?

GROW YOUR RETAIL CONNECTIONS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE BRC

WANT A MORE IN-DEPTH RELATIONSHIP WITH THE BRC?

Being a member of the BRC means we are able to get a deeper understanding of the latest issues affecting retailers, which is invaluable to ensuring we develop good relationships with these clients.

We hugely value our relationship with the BRC. The profile gained from working with the industry’s leading trade association on the data insights they provide and the openness of discussion when we consult them on matters of policy allow us to bring tangible benefits to our clients.

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Industry Briefings

Online Community Hubs

Digital Insights

Podcasts, Webinars & Events

Employment